Contemporary Irish Republican Prison Writing

Writing and Resistance
2007
ISBN: 978-1-4039-8193-6
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature

As it traces the textual history of the works of authors like Bobby Sands and Gerry Adams, this book analyses Republican resistance to disciplinary structures, demonstrating the ways in which prisoners appropriate space through discursive strategies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Whalen, L.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Taoibh Amuigh agus Faoi Ghlas: The Counter-aesthetics of Republican Prison Writing "Our Barbed Wire Ivory Tower": The Cages of Long Kesh "Comrades in the Dark": Writing in the H Blocks, 1976–1981 "Silence or Cell?": Women Writing in Armagh, Maghaberry, and Durham "Captive Voices": Post-1981 Republican Prison Writing Postscript: "You Look Like Jesus Christ": Images of Republican POWs in Contemporary Cinema

Über Autor(innen)

LACHLAN WHALEN is Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, USA.